Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
3529
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
the Haven
Address
4 The Close
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Llanfairfechan
Easting
268361
Northing
374693
Street Side
Location
At right angles to The Close to SW of junction with lane.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1922. By Herbert Luck North (1871-1941), outstanding Arts and Crafts Architect of his age in Wales.
The Close was laid out and developed between 1899 and 1945. The almost unaltered buildings (in materials making reference to local vernacular building styles), and the layout of The Close, form a textbook example of a group of high quality Arts and Crafts style domestic architecture unique in Wales.
Exterior
Two-storey house . Rough-cast render (now painted white). Roof laid in graded courses of small dark blue and russet slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Central chimneys in red-brown brick.
Entrance front with paired gables at right angles to Close; outer roof slopes of gables sweep down over ground floor at lower pitch. Tall first floor windows. On ground floor, central internal porch beneath pointed arch; pointed arched doorway. Porch flanked by broad small pane casement windows. To L, 2 windows light main room. Right elevation has, to L, single almost square window, to R, pointed arched doorway to shallow porch which has square-headed doorways to entrance and storage area. At rear, tall casement window to each gable, and small square windows to bathroom/toilet below which, are pair of shallow buttresses flanked by broad small pane casement windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
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